Sunday, September 6, 2026
Farm and Food File

Farm and Food File

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Alan Guebert chastizes the way "Big Ag" has handled climate change.
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Alan Guebert delves into Donald Trump's deportation plan and explains potential hiccups for the U.S. labor force, particularly in regards to agriculture.
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Alan Guebert says U.S. farmers have every right to howl over the administration's "mitigation" payment schemes and its counterproductive tariff policy.
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In his column this week, Alan Guebert sheds some light on the recent growth of the meatless meat market and tells farmers why they shouldn't even be mad.
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Even before he’s inaugurated though, Donald Trump will play a role in negotiating the not-yet-passed 2017 federal budget.
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Sonny Perdue killed the GIPSA rule, a complicated but crucial market reform aimed at leveling the meatpacker-dominated livestock and poultry markets.
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Alan Guebert reacts to the nearly 5,000 readers' comments posted online in response to sentiments from farmers included in a Washington Post article.
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Alan Guebert continues to write about how the USDA is applying its ethanol game plan to the budding sustainable aviation fuels market.
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Alan Guebert urges us to remember this year is about what we did to persevere, to stick, even though events or people pulled us toward failure.

A day does not pass without some Big Ag chieftain or Capitol Hill yakker parting their perpetually pursed lips to unleash total nonsense on...